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Date: | Thursday 15 March 1951 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Percival Prentice T Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 6 FTS RAF |
Registration: | VS360 |
MSN: | 5830/7 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Leverton, 6 miles ENE of Boston, Lincolnshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Tern Hill, Shropshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Percival Prentice T.1 VS360/"FB-GR" of 6 FTS RAF Tern Hill, Shropshire: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 15/3/1951 when the pilot became lost and decided to make a forced landing. However, while doing so, the aircraft overran the field selected for landing, and collided with a boundary hedge.
The reported crash location stated to be "South Leverton, Lincolnshire". However, South Leverton is a village and civil parish in Bassetlaw, north Nottinghamshire, England, four miles from Retford. Alternatively, the crash location is Leverton, Lincolnshire, a village and civil parish in the Boston district of Lincolnshire, England, about 6 miles (10 km) east-north-east from Boston, on the A52 road. The two locations are some 60 miles apart!
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.111 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.123
4. Photo of accident:
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1625509 5.
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/photolists/%40MAR_11_18.pdf 6.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VS 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverton,_Lincolnshire 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Leverton Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
15-Jan-2021 23:39 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
16-Jan-2021 11:39 |
Quenten74 |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |